Chinese army has tested a new type of heavy-duty pontoon bridge on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet during a military exercise.

The bridge was tested at a wartime river-crossing support drill organised by an engineer regiment of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in August on the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra),according to a report in the state-run People’s Daily online.

During the drill,the officers and men of the regiment conducted the drill on pontoon bridge erection with new-type heavy pontoon bridge equipment.

The new-type heavy bridge equipment adopts modular configuration and its structure can change at any time.

With a great load capacity,the new-type box-type raft of pontoon can ferry heavy weaponry and equipment across great rivers,it said.